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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 1

1. Question (Silene undulata preparation)
2. Spatial disorientation
3. Soil mech
4. Can you re-freeze food after it has thawed out in the refrigerator?
5. Paper v Plastic v Reusable cups

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 2

1. Can anyone provide me with examples of some cryptids that actually turned out to be real...
2. Characteristics of numbered BtI mosquito abatement treatments
3. DIY clear lens fabrication
4. Conflicting Statistical evidence. (yes economics and statistics are science too)
5. Bubbles

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 3

1. equivalent resistance
2. Electron's lifetime

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 4

1. The psychological aspect of spoilers and spoiler warnings
2. What are "Plasma tubes"?
3. Age of Ultron's proposed extintion event
4. Former North African fauna on Roman mosaics

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 5

1. Who writes abstracts for a scientific paper?
2. Lightning-saturated funnel clouds?

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 6

1. Sewage treatment question

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 7

1. Could Harvard revoke a degree of someone?
2. Emergency rooms

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 8

1. Plant identification from photo.
2. Chilli chaser
3. Encrypt and decrypt a photon?
4. Is there any way to control particles entanglement?

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 9

1. Space/Cosmos
2. Safe to look at a Heatlamp?
3. nicotine

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 10

1. Evidence that organic food can be unhealthy/health hazard?
2. Arabian desert
3. Will the Great Attractor beat Dark Energy?

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 11

1. Why do some people claim to enjoy bitter flavours?
2. Flying in Mars
3. Dr. Charles Drew car accident

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 12

1. Energy
2. Misuse of medication
3. Oldest fossil of MODERN humans

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 13

1. Why do some people die of cigarette smoking but others live to long ages?
2. Is PTSD considered a learning disability?

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 14

1. What kind of plant is this?
2. Wisdom tooth timing
3. Why is platinum a good material for spark plugs?
4. opium
5. Harvesting
6. Snowy owl?
7. Triggering emotional memories
8. Electrostimulation
9. Looking for a page about a Holholm (incorrect spelling) Box that traps light.
10. More Big bangs -> More (Parallel) universes?
11. Why keep food at 0 °F/-18 °C?

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 15

1. What are Strigimorphae?
2. Maximizing productivity of computer programmers

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 16

1. An idea about the existence of a big planet far away
2. Auto-darkening welding helmets and sunglassses
3. Surveilluminescent wand (see pic)
4. Why V formation and not a row?
5. Two-headed animals

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 17

1. Mount Everest reportedly moved 3 cm in April earthquake -- how was the measurement done?
2. healthcare costs in the USA
3. Mean tropical year
4. Slicing a malt loaf
5. Can we survive without oxygen for a while by injecting ourselves with D-Ribose?
6. Energy question
7. Recharging cellphone from waste radio energy.
8. Head transplants and souls

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 18

1. hair loss breakthrough
2. Mothballs as a "preservative" for books
3. dogs recognizing dogs
4. DIY small-scale deacidification of books?
5. Bearings are sticky - is this normal or has oil degraded?
6. People mistaking the gender of babies
7. Ambulance training
8. Ivory-bill woodpecker
9. Impact of water pressure on a scuba diver
10. Do window coverings have an impact on A/C usage?

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 19

1. TNT equivalent of antiprotons
2. physics garden

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 20

1. Ambulances in japan
2. Which of these foods are Probiotics?
3. Biological effects of Radon-222 exposure at 100% concentration
4. Spot reduction with topical substance
5. Density of Graviton?
6. Need an introductory and generalist engineering book

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 21

1. Cases of natural adrenaline halting anaphylaxis
2. Is putting sperm directly into a man's bloodstream a guaranteed way to permanently sterilize him?
3. windshield sun shade reflection
4. Tubes on a salvage tug
5. Earth compared to the known universe

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 22

1. Light-water breeder reactors
2. Is cunnilingus natural?
3. Do leap seconds matter at hardware level?
4. neutron stars and alpha particles
5. Changing aberrant sexual fantasies
6. Plasma steering
7. Space
8. Big Bang
9. Is there a way to make an animal taste unpleasant ?

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 23

1. Rhododendrons, Camellias, and Magnolias
2. Cassava as food.

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 24

1. Pregnancy category of Ethanol?
2. Short Tucano Ejection Seats
3. Natural Gas Liquids
4. Radiation
5. "Bringing out flavour"

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 25

1. What is the most laminar liquid?
2. Stars
3. literacy in animals
4. Resveratrol content in cranberries

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 26

1. What happened to the INSC?
2. Determining gender of parrot from behaviour
3. on waking
4. Metrophobia
5. Where in the body the water we drink is absorbed?
6. Is there a medical term that describes the non knowledge of the mechanism of disease?

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 27

1. Possible to stop eyes from watering?
2. Capillary refill in newborns
3. Chimpanzee#Anatomy_and_physiology
4. Life expectancy, what difference requires an explanation?

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 28

1. Rhizophoraceae, could it be narrowed down taxonomically?
2. How can one induce sleep paralysis?
3. Why did birds survive the extinction of other dinosaurs?
4. Memory question
5. Asteroids
6. Commercial space flight mishaps
7. Do these new driverless cars comply with the three laws of robotics?
8. Big Bang
9. Life form(s)

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 29

1. Identify a submarine
2. What is relation of the bacterium "Helicobacter pylori" to the pylorus?
3. Home-made air conditioner
4. Number of bones and joints in human body

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 June 30

1. How is it that one mole of any gas occupies 22.4 l?
2. Bose-Einstein condensates
3. Fate of coronary artery plaques after rupture
4. What do inspectors of nuclear facilities search for?
5. Star & Stellar Evolution